Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Yasmin Reeve is one of this year’s Sport and Fitness Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains.
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18 Aug 2021
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
The Games of the Tokyo Olympics have been played in empty stadiums and venues, without fans and family members. Jessica Pinchbeck looks at the importance of Adam Peaty's family to his success.
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03 Aug 2021
How to help your child become a future Olympian
The Olympic and Paralympic games show us that there is a sport for everyone. Dr Jane Dorrian looks at the ways you can inspire your child to be a future star.
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02 Aug 2021
Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Arguably, it has been a longer, and more challenging, road to Tokyo 2020 than any other Olympic Games in recent times. So how were the athletes and their support teams, able to pick up themselves up following the disappointment of the...
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30 Jul 2021
Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
The life of an Olympic or Paralympic athlete is characterised by highly planned and structured 4-year cycles designed to lead to peak performance in Olympic/Paralympic year, but what happens when that cycle unexpectedly stretches to 5 years and is...
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23 Jul 2021
What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?
Simon Rea previews the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, looking at the new sports featuring, plus who are Team GB's best chances of winning medals.
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21 Jul 2021
Olympics, Paralympics, Olympians and Paralympians
The Tokyo Olympics were a huge success for Team GB, who finished in fourth place - matching their medal haul from the London 2012 Olympics. You can dig deep into the Olympics and Paralympics with our range of free resources.
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21 Jul 2021
Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Whilst this year’s Olympic Games will almost certainly suffer from COVID-19 constraints, the event remains the largest sporting spectacle in the world. Over time the Games have evolved from their modest beginnings into something incomparably grand...
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21 Jul 2021
Medal Quest: Can you guide a promising young athlete to championship success?
Can you help a talented child athlete make it all the way to the Olympic finals based on the choices you make for them at key stages in their development? Try our game and find out.
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01 Jul 2021
Euro 2020
The UEFA European Championships conclude at Wembley on 11 July. In between the knock-out games, check out the expert insights and free sport courses in our Euro 2020 hub.
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03 Jun 2021
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